Dewey's Daily Cup

Dear KKIM Family,

I just got a whole bunch of new books that Oswald Chambers wrote! I am so excited!
Let me share this from the powerful updated devotional of Chambers……My Upmost For HIS Highest……….

This message is POWERFUL!!!!

What To Renounce

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame. 2 Cor. 4:2

Have you “renounced the hidden things of shame” in your life——the things that sense of honor or pride will not allow to come into the light?
Renounce everything in it’s entirety until there is no hidden dishonesty or craftiness about you at all. You must maintain continual watchfulness so that nothing arises in your life that would cause you shame.

What a message……….After I read that I went to prayer right away………..I prayed that I would be watchful of myself to always act in a Godly way. I became aware of some things I need to watch. How about you?

Yesterday in reading scripture over the phone to my Uncle Joe, I read to him Psalm 23. He loves it!

The Lord is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still waters.

he restores my soul;

He leads me in the path of righteousness

For His name’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil;

For You are with me;

You rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

You prepare a table for me in the

presence of my enemies;

You anoint my head with oil;

My cup runs over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

All days of my life;

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever.

AMEN!

Let us get to these prayer needs, first from our Man at the Mike, KKIM’s Frank……….

Dewey,
Please add this to the e-mail prayer list:

Annaliese Smith, 10 years old, daughter of our friend Melissa Smith,… Dr’s. suspect that she may have M.S. She lost her vision her left eye recently, her vision returned, but a brain scan shows elisions on the right side of her brain. More tests will be done next week.

Please pray for a healing and comfort. Thanks, Alice & Frank

Let us continue to pray for the little boy, Police say he was between 3 to 5 years old, that was buried at an Albuquerque playground. His body was found on Friday. Police still do not have any idea who the little tike is or why. Members of the community are calling this little boy, “Baby Boy Angel”. Many got together Saturday night and held a prayer service for him Saturday night.You might remember, Little Tommy, we named him for the 18 month old boy who was strangled and almost has his arm pulled off by his Aunt’s boyfriend. We also have had over a dozen bodies discovered buried in the West Mesa in Albuquerque in the last month or so. All young women. Let us pray for our land of Albuquerque……..God’s Children are being murdered and buried here in Albuquerque, it has shaken me so……..We need to be on our knees and pray for Satan to leave our City and for a Revival right here in the Duke City.

Are we, the Church going to play Church or get going here? I really believe with all my heart and soul we are not praying enough and we are not seeking out those who need the Lord enough. We must seek out the gang members, the murderers, drug addicts, Abusers,and minister to them. I know this is not easy, but there is no promise of Ministry work being easy. If you would like to join me, send me an email. We are going to be in prayer everyday at 4:30 on the air, join us. If you would like to come into the station and join us in prayer, email me. I would like to hear from God’s people!

This prayer need is from Pastor Kevin Haney of Rio Rancho, NM………..

Eph 1: 3 ¶ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the good pleasure of His will,

5/1/09 Please pray for the Merrill family. (The father pastors in Sanders, Arizona.) Two of their sons (ages 16 and 22) were overcome in a river accident. One body was recovered, and the other has not been found yet. There was also a third young man who was lost at the same time. Please pray for these families and the many lives that have been affected.

Remembering Joey, one of the three boys that was overcome in the water
of the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon during this year’s hike.

http://www.ibconlin e.edu/ibc/ news/2009/ remembering_ joey.jsp

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=tg9PvgMQb0U

Let us check my favorite part of the CUP………..The mailbag, because I love to hear from YOU!

Good Morning Dewey!

Thank you for listening to the Holy Spirit and reminding all of us why we are here … to give honor and glory to our one and only true God in all of our thoughts, words, actions and deeds!

Keep putting a smile on the face of our Lord!

Blessings,

Cindy Russell

Dewey –
Keep up the good work and love what you’re doing.
Jim Mogford

Dear Dewey, this ‘Cup was very disturbing. (Weekend Cup on Barna Info)I have felt the same way as the History buff. Its very sad to feel that this nation is on the brink, but then there are scriptures to back it up, plus history. I’ve always heard that history repeats itself. So who knows with the new militia that Obama is planning on, just might be his insite to what is to come.
It makes me think of the five Uncles I have had that fought and served proudly for this country. Five of my Mothers brothers went willingly. Plus my brother was in the Air Force stationed in Japan just a few years after the war ended, only to come home with bone cancer that took 21/2 years to finally kill him at 23 years of age. I was very young at the time, but the memories are etched in my mind of his agony. So many have given to this Nation. And so many have paid the extreme price. My cousin luckily made it out of Afghanistan just lately. He is in Alaska with his memories, of serving.
Its a shame that not all of our Presidents didn’t serve this nation. I think then they would have had a better understanding, not to mention appreciation.
God Bless this Country. We are in need of an extreme Blessing that would wake people to the truths of what is going on. But dissolve it without violence.
Gods Will Be Done. sam p.s. I also deeply agree with Mr Graham. He could never be his father. Billy Graham could never be replaced. But I pray another true teacher of God will arise for us. I pray it will happen soon and will be a light for this USA.

Hey Dewey,

Thanks for the air time yesterday. It would warm my heart if someone came up to me at the CLASSeminar and said that heard about the event on KKIM. I pray that there is someone out in your listening audience that was looking for this type of break. That is what happened to me the first time I heard abut the Glorieta Christian Writer’s Conference on the radio almost 10 years ago. How cool if the radio spot was the beginning of someone’s new adventure with God.

Have a great day and a wonderful weekend! And thanks and bless you for aga in for giving CLASS some radio time.

Shona Neff

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Certified Personality Trainer
Editor, Take Root and Write
Radio Host www.myKKIM.com
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www.takerootandwrite.com

If you need info on the Conference, just email me radiodewey@aol.com

Let us pray…………

Lord we pray for baby Boy Angel…….we pray for whoever put him in his early grave……Oh Lord let this revive the hearts of your people……..In Jesus name, AMEN!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

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Dewey, can you send out a prayer for that young boy that was found dead at the park yesterday. Its unimaginable that this has happened this shows us that we are always under attack by the enemy and we must pick up our cross and the armor of Jesus Christ. Leonard Sanchez

Dear KKIM Family,

This is unimaginable!

The body of a little boy…….yes a little boy between the ages of 3 to 5 was found buried at a Albuquerque playground yesterday. Police say he had been buried for less than 48 hours.

We are living in a time where our society beats and kill’s it’s children. Satan is alive and well.

Let us pray……………

Lord, we come to you today with the news of the little boy buried here in Albuquerque. You know him and keep him, we are failing to protect Your children here on earth. Forgive us all. In Jesus name, AMEN

Dear KKIM Family,

I was not going to send out a Cup today…….but the Lord moved me to share these stories with you. They will make you think and pray. We must face the truth as to where we are at as a Country.We must face the Truth that the only way to get out of this mess is through Jesus Christ.

Our depression can become the occasion for growth. It’s proof that God never

wastes an experience, even one arising from the travails of a fallen world.

KKIM’s Man on the Mike Frank filed these reports………..

GEORGE BARNA: AMERICA IS BEING DESTROYED INSIDE OUT:
Christian pollster George Barna reached out to members of the Christian press Wednesday night, insisting that United States is being destroyed from the inside and that the way to restore the country is through returning Americans to their core values.
George Barna, founder of The Barna Group, shares ideas presented in his latest book, 7 Faith Tribes, on the opening night of the Evangelical Press Association/Associated Church Press Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
George Barna, founder of The Barna Group, shares ideas presented in his latest book, 7 Faith Tribes, on the opening night of the Evangelical Press Association/Associated Church Press Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.
The once great United States is decaying, declared Barna to hundreds of Christian journalists on the opening night of the joint annual convention of the Evangelical Press Association and the Associated Church Press.
America’s rates of divorce, abortion, STD transmission, spousal abuse and crime are the highest or among the highest compared to other developed nations, he added. And the percentage of students graduating from high school on time has not changed in 32 years.
“The enemy of America today is not Iraq. It is not Afghanistan or communism. It is not Somalian pirates. It’s the moral degradation and spiritual complacency of Americans,” contended Barna, founder of the research firm The Barna Group. “In essence it is the willingness of Americans to become victims of the imposition of values and objectives that defy our common good.”
Barna pointed to what he sees as the many factors that are leading America to its deterioration, including moving from mass production to mass consumption, moving from common values to now radical individualism with personal values, and competition among faith groups rather than cooperation.
“Just think about the shift in mottos that characterize our nation,” Barna noted. “We talked about one nation under God, but today really we are one nation under self, sometimes aided by one or more gods.
“We shifted from a nation that said ‘In God We Trust’ to ‘Reality and self we trust,’” he continued. “We transitioned from being a land of the free and the home of the brave, to now we are the land of the indebted and the home of the self-indulgent. We also shifted from a land that believes you can be all you can be to now it’s get all you can get.”
According to Barna, the deterioration of American society is fueled by the breakdown in leadership and core institutions such as family, government, and education. The nation as a whole has lost its shared vision and the shared values that help manage society, the well-known pollster said.
But Barna said he believes there is still hope for restoration if the country’s seven faith tribes return to their core values.
The seven faith tribes are the religious groups that Barna categorized based on the more than 30,000 interviews he conducted over the years. These tribes are: casual Christians (66 percent of the U.S. population), captive Christians (16 percent), Jews (2 percent), Mormons (2 percent), pantheists (2 percent), Muslims (0.5 percent), and skeptics (11 percent).
Barna lamented how these groups have for too long contributed to the problem of social decay. Instead of instilling values and morality in their congregants, these groups focus on building more and bigger buildings, offering more programs, establishing more nationally recognized leaders, and raising and spending more money, he noted.
But Barna says it is it is now time for the faith tribes to return to their core values and start restoring America.
Barna believes that=2 0by harnessing the 20 common values shared by faith tribes – including developing inner peace and purity, representing the truth, practicing self-restraint, respecting life, and being a good citizen – Americans can start to rebuild the country to one of civility, accountability, commitment and unity.

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“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” – Barack Obama
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Dr. David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar , Senegal . He attended Harvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.

He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University . Kaiser’s latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press.

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By Dr. David Kaiser

History Unfolding

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money.. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) – the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten… And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska . All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning..

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the “savior” was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative “losers” read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot.. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did – regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand – the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media – did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and …. . .. change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It’s all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States

Chuck Burton, Associated Press – Ap

Rev. Franklin Graham, left, helps his father, Rev. Billy Graham, to a groundbreaking ceremony for the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, N.C., in this Aug. 26, 2005, file photo.

Having taken over their fathers’ ministries, two iconic preachers are coming to town.

By JEFF STRICKLER, Star Tribune

Last update: May 15, 2009 – 5:21 PM

A NIGHT OF HOPE
Who: Joel Osteen and his wife, Victoria.

When: 7:30 p.m., May 29.

Where: Target Center.

Tickets: $15 at www.joelosteen.com.

ROCK THE RIVER
Who: Franklin Graham.

When: 2:30 p.m. Aug. 16.

Where: Harriet Island.

Tickets: $10 at the gate; no advance sale.

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The man often called the new Billy Graham — Joel Osteen — and the man who hates to be called the new Billy Graham — his son, Franklin Graham — are bringing their evangelical road shows to the Twin Cities this summer.

That’s not all they have in common. Both of their fathers launched ministries that became phenomenally successful, both vowed that they would never take over those ministries, both did take over the ministries and, as a result, both have become the religious world’s equivalent of rock stars.

One more thing: They both say that God has had more to do with their success than they have.

“I have to credit God for anything good I’ve accomplished,” said Graham, who will host a Rock the River “evangelistic concert” Aug. 16 on Harriet Island. Osteen, who will lead a “Night of Hope” at Target Center May 29, is of a similar mind: “God has a plan, and things always work out His way.”

Their success flies in the face of common wisdom, which holds that ministries that rely on charismatic founders hit the skids when someone else takes over. Look at Robert H. Schuler, who in October fired his son, Robert A. Schuler, three years after he had handed over the reins to his popular “Hour of Power” ministry.

No such problems loom for either Graham or Osteen.

By the time his father asked him to take over as CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in 2000, Franklin Graham already was a major player in the faith-based relief community. Starting as a volunteer for Samaritan’s Purse, an organization that funnels $300 million a year to more than 20 developing countries, he worked his way up to president and CEO, a position he still holds in addition to his other duties.

As for Osteen, after the 1999 death of his father, John, he built Houston-based Lakewood Church from a megachurch to a gigachurch, with an average weekly attendance of 43,000 and another 8 million people in 100 countries watching each week on TV or video streamed online.

Don’t call him Billy

Graham’s accomplishments with Samaritan’s Purse allow him to remind people that he’s not just riding his father’s coattails.

“I didn’t even start working at BGEA until 1989,” the 56-year-old said during a recent visit to the Twin Cities to promote his August rally. By that point, he’d already spent nearly 15 years focusing on his own mission.

In his 1995 autobiography, “Rebel With a Cause,” Graham wrote extensively about resenting the pressure that was put on him — literally from the day he was born — to walk in his father’s footsteps. His mother kept the congratulatory telegrams, which said things like, “Best wishes to the young preacher” and, “Your daddy has new help for preaching.”

“Not one of those telegrams or cards ventured that I might grow up to enjoy career success as a cowboy, jet pilot, doctor or motorcycle mechanic,” he said.

The key turning point to his career in ministry was the realization that he could carry on his father’s work without having to become a Mini-Me.

“I’m not Billy Graham, and I never could be,” he said. “Our message is the same, but my style is completely different. I’ve watched the children of other famous people try to emulate their fathers or mothers, and it doesn’t work. They never discover who they are.”

Rock the River is an attempt to reach the younger generation “in a language they understand.” That means music. Starting in Baton Rouge, La., on July 18, the tour will work its way up the Mississippi River, with Harriet Island as the last stop. It will include music from Flyleaf, Decemberadio and Flame.

“They’re head-bangers,” Graham said. “They’re Christian bands, but I still know that I’m not going to like the music. But that’s OK, because the young people do. I’ll just bring Advil and ear-plugs.”

Don’t call him Billy, either

Osteen, 46, isn’t sure where the term “the new Billy Graham” originated in connection with him. Perhaps with talk show host Larry King, who has made the Texas minister one of his frequent guests and trumpets the magnitude of his worldwide following.

“I take it as a compliment, but I prefer that people wouldn’t say it,” he said. “Billy Graham is one of my heroes. I would never compare myself with him.”

Although he followed his father to Oral Roberts University, he had no intention of following him into the pulpit, even though his father often encouraged him to do so. He majored in radio and TV communications and spent 17 years overseeing his father’s TV broadcasts.

“I was perfectly happy producing and editing those shows,” he said. “I never saw myself preaching.”

When his father died unexpectedly of a heart attack, he was thrown into the breach. He had all he could do to keep his knees from shaking, he says now, but the long-term results speak for themselves.

“Sometimes God’s dream is bigger than yours,” he said.

His TV ministry is atypical in that he ends the broadcasts by encouraging viewers to start attending a local church of their choosing. Asked if that might not keep people from being home Sunday morning to watch him, he said that he doesn’t care.

“My goal has never been to see how big of an audience I can create,” he said. “That wasn’t my daddy’s goal, either. He started out with 90 people. We never sat down and said, ‘Let’s see if we can build a megachurch.’ There are enough huge churches out there already.”

Asked to define his mission, then, he said: “To plant seeds of hope. We all face issues: relationship issues or health issues or economic issues. I never talk down to people. I always try to lift them up. All I’ve ever done is try to be the best I can be, and I encourage people to be the best that they can be.”

Let us Pray………………..

Lord, We come to You today on Armed Forces Day. We remember all those who have given their lives for our Country……..Our Country that has fallen away from You in many ways……..Our Country whose flag is weathered from all it’s battles, Our prayer today is that America will once again give it’s hearts and souls to You, Father, just like the founders of the United States of America! You are the only way Father, In Jesus name, AMEN!

In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family

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